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Ukrainian national who completed Air Force officer training convicted in ghost gun 3D printing operation

Yaroslav Vishnevski convicted on five federal counts after authorities found ghost gun 3D printing operation and illegal silencers from China.…

I stopped buying cheap plastic parts after my 3D printer proved it could solve every household problem

Cheap plastic parts stopped making sense once my 3D printer started replacing them with better household fixes.…

I've been 3D printing for 3 years, and PETG is the only filament I print functional parts in now

PLA made 3D printing easy for me, but PETG is what made my printed parts useful.…

100m sprinting: Gurindervir Singh is India’s fastest man, but the finish line is still far away

Gurindervir Singh sets a national 100m record at 10.09s, highlighting India's sprinting evolution and challenges ahead.…

The best 3D printer prints are the boring ones that fix problems you've learned to ignore

Flashy 3D prints get the attention, but the boring ones make the printer worth owning, those cable guides, brackets, organizers, and repair parts.…

Google just made it ridiculously easy to 3D print your own Fitbit Air bands

Google has released official instructions and 2D CAD drawings to help brands and hobbyists create custom Fitbit Air bands.…

California Assembly passes 3D printer bill that would criminalize bypassing mandated gun-blocking software

AB 2047 advances to the state Senate.…

My 3D printer pays for itself fixing broken household parts, not printing toys

The toys are fun, but the real magic of a 3D printer starts when something breaks, and you don’t have to buy the whole thing again.…

Testing Various Ways to Waterproof FDM Printed Parts

Along with layer lines, FDM printers are notorious for being neither air- nor water-tight due to the countless very small gaps between the layers. This is very unfortunate if you a…

7 everyday items I no longer have to buy thanks to 3D printing

I started 3D printing for making fidgets and toys, but the hobby has shown lots of practical uses, too…

I wasted half a spool of filament before I touched the one slicer setting that fixed everything

I blamed speed, temperature, supports, and filament before I finally checked the flow rate calibration.…

Pentagon eyes 3D-printed military boats made from volcanic fiber — non-conductive hulls add stealth capabilities while replacing a 6,545-mile supply chain, could scale to 25,000 vessels a year at forward bases

These inflatable boats use basalt fiber to reduce radar returns and RF interference.…

Every Medium Publication That Accepts 3D Content (2026 Map)

If you create 3D content — printing guides, WebGL tutorials, Three.js projects, CAD workflows — and...…

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I stopped buying expensive kitchen organizers and 3D printed these custom storage tools instead

Maximize even the smallest kitchen's space…

A Fume-Control Cabinet for Resin 3D Printing

For a certain kind of intricate, highly-detailed manufacturing, there’s really no substitute for a resin 3D printer, and it’s therefore unfortunate that they require so many poison…

I’m a photographer and the Canon PIXMA Pro-200S feels like the printer of my dreams — here’s why

The Canon PIXMA Pro-200S boasts stunning print quality and speeds, and it accommodates small and large paper alike. It sports a low-key, classy design too.…

Bambu Lab teases new A2L 3D printer — June 1 launch confirmed

Without much to go on, fans speculate what the newest Bambu Lab 3D printer could be.…

Treasury Department is weighing a $250 bill with Trump's image

The department said it is preparing for the banknote in response to legislation proposed last year.…

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026 is available.…

'Born from basalt' — How a tiny Hawaii startup is rewriting the rules of naval shipbuilding with 3D printers and 100% recyclable materials

Military shipbuilding could change forever as Voltage Vessels tests 3D printed RHIB made from volcanic basalt plastic composite…

xTool's M2 does color printing, laser cutting, and engraving for $599—and it actually changes the game for makers

xTool’s M2 combines color printing, laser cutting, and engraving for less than $600, making desktop crafting feel far more accessible.…

Claude Code organized my 3D printing chaos, but it taught me something more important about automation

Claude Code cleaned up my messy 3D printing workflow, but the bigger lesson was knowing where to stop automating.…

PSA another broken Microsoft Patch: KB5087424 (May 2026 hotpatch) breaks 32-bit printing on Server 2022 — splwow64.exe 0xc0000142

What’s your process for printing photos at large scale

Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer

For the past few months, the 3D printing community has been poking at a very interesting question: what if a multi-material printer were not limited to the colors physically loaded…

3D printing enthusiast smashes 59-second 3DBenchy for new speed world record —Minuteman 3D printer with revamped bed motion system breaches minute mark

Printer used was the 20th public iteration of the Minuteman design by nozzle-head Yan Roetz.…

Wells Fargo to offer mortgage incentives on 3D printed homes with Icon

Wells Fargo will provide a 50 basis point lender credit to buyers of Icon homes using its mortgages.…

How important do you think browser/device fingerprinting has become for modern fraud detection compared to traditional bot detection?

Exit IP fingerprinting between VPN servers

On Friday the 15th of May, we became aware of a fingerprinting issue affecting Mullvad users.…

3D Printing Space Cadet Pinball Into the Real World

Unless you’ve managed to avoid touching a Windows computer until after the Windows XP era, it’s pretty good odds you’ve played Space Cadet Pinball. Some of you may have even paid ……

Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations (Software Freedom Conservancy)

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) published a news item on May 18 about its response to vi [...]…

Save up to $350 on the best 3D printers in the Memorial Day sale — massive price cuts on Bambu Lab, Elegoo, Creality, and Anycubic 3D printers including the 'exceptionally good' Centauri Carbon 2 and our top budget pick for beginners

I've picked out the best Memorial Day 3D printer deals for beginners, hobbyists, and small business owners.…

Kerley wins 100m heat at Enhanced Games

American sprint star Fred Kerley wins the men's 100-metre heat at the Enhanced Games in 9.93 seconds.…

Save $170 on this lightning-fast, premium 3D printer combo featuring CoreXZ kinematics — Creality's Ender-3 V3 is on sale for just $419 right now with a multicolor upgrade kit

Solve the Ender-3 V3's biggest weakness with this combo deal.…

New video of melted Bambu Lab A1 sparks debate about whether the A1 3D printer is still a fire hazard — critics push for recall while redditors suspect external factors

Viral footage shows a scorched mess, should the A1 be recalled?…

What type of apps are quietly printing money right now that nobody talks about?

Designing a Printable Cyclone Dust Separator for 99.95% Efficiency

Filtering sawdust out of an airflow is easy until you try to do it with cyclone separation, but the obvious appeal here is of course not spending a fortune on filters. Over the yea…

'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

Thousands are daring Bambu to take legal action.…

Putting Version 7.1 of the Direct Granules FDM Extruder Through Its Paces

Whether you’re using granules or filament, FDM printing relies heavily on a consistent flowrate of the extruder. This is also the challenge with [HomoFaciens]’s direct granule extr…

CLI Printing Press

Print an agent-native CLI for any API, app, or site — from a single prompt.…

My side project: free 3D printing tools + a community printer/filament DB.

Building PrintWave: Why I Became Obsessed With Making Mobile Printing Simpler

My first week with a 3D printer taught me that defaults destroy prints, not build them

Default settings feel safe, but my first week with a 3D printer proved they can quietly wreck prints.…

Faster 3D prints came out cleaner, and I finally understand why default speed is just a safety net

Faster 3D printing can actually improve results when the printer, slicer, and filament are already dialed in.…

Code in interview coding pad didn’t work and kept printing undefined . Copied the whole thing to clip board before code pad ended, after the interview pasted it in vs code and it worked. How’s your recruitment process going?

Water-cooling a 3D Printed Rocket Isn’t Quite Practical

Consumer-grade 3D printers are useful for lots of things, but they kind of fall down when it comes to making stuff that survives high temperatures. [Mr. More Gooder] wasn’t deterre…

Elegoo’s Centauri Carbon 2 Combo 3D printer gets a $50 discount — brings beginner friendly 3D printing at $399

One of the best budget 3D printers from Elegoo.…

Microsoft tried to kill the printer driver. Healthcare said no.

Microsoft tried to kill the printer driver. 90% of US healthcare said no. In late 2025,...…

Kerley taunts Gout, challenges teen to race him clean at Enhanced Games

American sprint star Fred Kerley doesn’t think Gout Gout can handle the “pressure” of elite sprinting, warning the teenager he would beat him in a head-to-head race at the Enhanced…

Filament Manager is the boring AMS upgrade that actually matters

Bambu Studio’s Filament Manager isn’t flashy, but it finally gives AMS owners the material-tracking workflow they have needed for years.…

Hackaday Podcast Episode 370: Softer Cyberdecks, a Simulated Clutch, and an Overstuffed Mailbox

With Elliot back from Hackaday Europe, he and Al Williams had a lot to talk about with two weeks of Hackaday posts to catch up on. Not to mention the mailbag was overflowing. This …

I switched back to OrcaSlicer for my Bambu printer, and the cloud integration changes everything

OrcaSlicer already gave Bambu users more control than Bambu Studio. Now that the cloud workflow is smoother, switching back makes far more sense.…

Save up to $300 on a new 3D printer right now, thanks to these Memorial Day discounts — filament and resin 3DP deals from Bambu Lab, Elegoo, Creality, and more are perfect for beginners and pros

Get started on a new hobby over this Memorial Day weekend…

Save up to $300 on a new 3D printer right now, thanks to these Memorial Day discounts — filament and resin 3DP deals from Bambu Lab, Elegoo, Creality, and more are perfect for beginners and pros

Get started on a new hobby over this Memorial Day weekend…

Logan man charged over alleged 3D gun printing set-up

Video from a police raid shows multiple plastic gun parts, springs and barrels, and 3D printers allegedly used to manufacture the weapons.…

Mullvad VPN discloses fingerprinting flaw that could track users across servers – you may need to act now

The VPN has confirmed a fix is in progress…

Open-source non-profit claims Bambu Lab violated license — move follows cease-and-desist demand on OrcaSlicer fork that restored cloud printing features without using Bambu Connect

The Software Freedom Conservancy is looking into the situation.…

Mullvad to patch VPN fingerprinting issue to stop your activity from being tracked across servers

The privacy-focused provider has started addressing a networking flaw that could allow websites to link user sessions across different VPN servers…

Aussie sprint gun blitzes 200m final

Aidan Murphy scorches to victory in the 200-metre final at the Oceania athletics championships in 20.05 seconds.…